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This CIA file, whose date is not given, contains a secret debriefing report on a 1960 tourist trip to the Soviet Union. The traveler, a Library of Congress employee, went to Moscow, Kiev and Lviv in September 1960. The report includes an operational diary, biographical information on contacts, material on intelligence requirements, and transcripts of Ukrainian Radio interviews. The briefer's comments call the operation successful and say the traveler detected Soviet surveillance. The document does not discuss UFOs.
“Siberia”2 pages
$at COMMENTS OF THE BRIEFER Thia operation met be considered a successful one. Considering• that Sukieet vas very streeglY cautioned shout his aotivities inside the Soviet Union and briefed accordingly, he showed much initiative in all the tasks he vas assigned. In this respect he: 1. established contact with Soviet citizens where ever the op- portuoity arose--in hotels, in the streets, and in Soviet establisheentsi 2. re-established contsets mith individuals known to him from his previous tripe to the Soviet Ukdom4 3. paid visits to Soviet officials in connection with his study plane, as yell as to personalities of Soviet Ukrainianculture and mimeo; 4. tried to obtain information on general and specific intelligence requirement.; 5, participated in two tape recording interviews for the Ukrainian Radio in trim and Kiev which vire not initiated by hie, but occurred for reasons which cannot be immediately and fell leePlatned. The probably **Planation is that be vas comsidered either a. progressive or at least as having sympathies ishieh could be exploited by the Soviet propaganda. Compering Subject's two trips to the Soviet Won, there wee not meth ditterenee as tee as normal tourist movements 'were oomoerned. la eenneetion with the met, introduced pepsine plan for tourists, items edeuotellecom for the reason that leteuriet did not pay much attention to the lowbudget tsarist, raboXy places like Moscow, Wm, and even WY, the Intourtst employees seemed to he beffrthat they ewe 'IMAM some or the burden from their shoulders. As far as contacts and ovations Imre concerned, there wee net =oh differenee from lest pm * except that in some Inatome* it seemed as though people were somewhat more cautious and probably a Little *ore arable It vas Sahject's feelleg that he could have made some personal operational contacts if he had been so briefed. His geeeral feeling was that he had been cautioned a little toe much. On the other head, the briefing on security led him to discover Soviet surveillance. SEMI
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 88 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.